Physician assistants are a valuable resource when it comes to patient care at Community Medical Centers. However, not many people know what this job entails and what a P.A. does. Here's a little insight into the job and how our P.A.s work to give our patients the best of care.

RBC Wealth Management’s George Bedrosian (left) and Marc Otta (far right) presented a $4,000 check to help support Terry’s House – the two-story, 20-room hospitality home across the street from Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno.

Terry's House celebrates one year of helping families stay close to their loved ones in critical condition at Community Regional Medical Center. Take a look back at how it has helped and the lives it has changed.

Community Medical Centers provided nearly $134 million in uncompensated services to the medically underserved in fiscal year 2010/2011, equivalent to more than 12 percent of its total expenses, according to the nonprofit hospital system’s annual community benefits report filed with the State of California.

After spending more than a year at Community Regional Medical Center, patient Marco Fuentes was released to go home. Physician assistant Neydi Salverri-Edmonds said there were many times when they didn’t know if Fuentes would survive necrotizing pancreatitis, an infection of the pancreas, which ate away tissue, including his intestines. To keep him alive, Fuentes was on intravenous feeding for 11 months and two weeks – no food or water passed his lips for almost a year.

Employees, volunteers and physicians are showing their holiday spirit by doing extra kind deeds for others during the holidays. It’s happening throughout the Community Medical Centers network and here are just a few examples found at Community Regional Medical Center.